Chapter 63 Tomorrow's Palace Examination
In the wooden house at the dock, a group of people were lying on their beds groaning.

Jie Qing's arms and head were wrapped in cloth strips. The bleeding had stopped, but he was still shaking with anger.

Sitting next to him was Guan Chenghai, the manager of the Cao Gang's Jiujiang Wharf, who was also the leader who led the Cao Gang to raid the Beggars' Gang and the masked men in the beginning. His situation was not much better.

The Cao Gang has a management hall inside the dock, where they enshrine Guandi. All matters big and small within the gang are discussed and decided in the management hall.

The so-called old steward is the person who is responsible for managing all affairs of the hall and the dock.

At this moment, most of the masked men were wanderers from all walks of life. With so many casualties, some of them became timid and left nearly ten corpses behind before scattering like birds.

Only the Beggars' Sect and the Cao Clan were left staring at each other.
After hearing Li Qing's explanation, Guan Chenghai also felt that the matter was serious.

He subconsciously asked, "Are you telling the truth? Is this really the letter from Mr. Gongshi?"

"Why would I lie to you?!"

Jie Qing stood up suddenly, kicked over the table in front of him, and shouted angrily: "Those idiots don't use their brains, so why don't you use your brains?!"

"Cough cough."

Guan Chenghai turned his head away somewhat embarrassedly. Who could have thought that the Beggars' Sect could get in touch with the tribute scholar?

One Gongshi master is already quite terrifying, the key is that Gongshi masters have hundreds of the same year, and their relationship may be more united than that within some sects.

At least the tribute scholars will not kill each other. If you resign, the matter will be over.

"There is only one way now, get the wooden box back immediately!" After Jie Qing vented his anger, he regained a lot of his rationality.

He turned his head and looked at Guan Chenghai and said, "I don't know as much as my brother about things on the water, so I'll leave the search on the water to my brother. I'll go recruit the Beggars' Gang Jiujiang Branch and have them search on the shore."

"Okay!" Guan Chenghai nodded immediately, and then asked, "Is there anything eye-catching about the wooden box?"

"It's finely crafted, date red in color, with plum blossom patterns on all four sides." Jie Qing blurted out.

"I'll write it down!" Guan Chenghai took out a pen and paper and wrote it down carefully.

Then he walked out of the wooden house. Nearly a hundred Cao Gang callers had gathered outside. Guan Chenghai bowed and said loudly: "Brothers, Lao Guan needs your help to find something."

After Guan Chenghai finished speaking, nearly a hundred men from the Cao Gang responded in unison, and then everyone turned around and prepared to drive their own boats out of the dock.

The four masters brought by Jie Qing were all injured, so he could only choose Jiao Muqing, who was the least injured, to go to the City God Temple in the city to find someone.

Just then, Yue Lingshan and Lao Denuo walked into the dock.

Whether you are going to Hengshan County or Fuzhou, you can take a boat.

The nearest pier is here.

Therefore, a group of Cao Gang men and Beggar Gang masters who were about to take action all stared at the small reddish-brown wooden box sticking out from the package behind Yue Lingshan.

Yue Lingshan felt a little uneasy being stared at by so many people, so she approached Lao Denuo and asked in a low voice: "Second Senior Brother, why do I feel like they are all looking at me?"

Lao Denuo tried to move to the side, but Yue Lingshan was too close, and it would be too obvious if he moved.

After hearing what the junior sister said, Lao Denuo smiled bitterly and said: "Don't feel it, they are just looking at us"

“Hey, why are you looking at me?” Yue Lingshan heard this and said with courage, “My father is the head of Huashan, I am not afraid of you!”

The daughter of Huashan Sect Leader and Gentleman Sword Yue Buqun? !

The Beggars' Sect members were stunned for a moment, then they breathed a sigh of relief, because it was one of their own.

The Cao Gang were fearless. They lived on the docks and on boats all day long and had never heard of any leader of Huashan.

Xie Qing immediately squeezed out from behind the crowd and saw the wooden box in Yue Lingshan's package. He was overjoyed: "It's this wooden box! It actually came back by itself?!"

After these words were spoken, everyone in the Cao Gang was speechless. It was clearly brought back by the girl, so how come in his mouth it became like the wooden box came back by itself?
"Are you talking about this wooden box?" Yue Lingshan pulled out the wooden box and looked Jie Qing up and down. He was dressed shabbily and looked ordinary. He didn't look like a scholar who was well-read, right?
So, she asked, “How do you prove it’s yours?”

Jie Qing immediately said, "This is something that Mr. Ou Zanghua, the chief disciple of the Nanyue Hengshan Sect, entrusted our Beggars' Sect to send back to Hengshan County. It contains two music scores and a letter. It's not some bullshit secret book!"

Yue Lingshan was stunned. Who said there were secret books in here?

Laudno sighed secretly, it turned out to be a musical score, no wonder he couldn't understand it.

While Yue Lingshan was distracted, Jie Qing approached with the Beggar Gang's Lotus Step and snatched the wooden box back.

After discovering that the lock was broken, he felt nervous and immediately opened it to check. He was relieved to see that everything was there.

Yue Lingshan came back to her senses and said with some dissatisfaction: "Hey, even if it's yours, it's not good to snatch it away like this, right?" After noticing that the envelope had been tampered with, Jie Qing resisted the urge to question her in public, and bowed to Yue Lingshan and said: "Thank you, Miss Yue, for helping us bring back the wooden box. I am Jie Qing, the Green Lotus Envoy of the Beggars' Sect. I owe you a favor. Please spare me a moment to talk."

When Yue Lingshan heard that the other party was from the Beggars' Sect, she let down her guard a little.

After she and Jie Qing walked aside, Jie Qing asked in a voice that only they could hear: "Ms. Yue, have you read this family letter?!"

"So what if you have seen it? So what if you haven't seen it?" Yue Lingshan asked somewhat guiltily.

This rhetorical question confused Jie Qing.

Yes!

So what if you’ve seen it?
So what if you haven’t seen it?

He couldn't do anything to Yue Lingshan, after all, she had the Gentleman Sword behind her, and the Songshan Sect had been shouting "The Five Mountains Sword Sects are of the same blood" in recent years.

And who knows what Mr. Ou’s attitude towards the Five Mountains Sword Sect is?

He scratched his head and said through gritted teeth, "Since Miss Yue is also from the Five Mountains Sword Sect and got involved in this matter by mistake, please go to Hengshan County with me! Whether you have read it or not, everything will be decided by the recipient!"

Yue Lingshan's eyes lit up after hearing this, and she asked happily, "You mean, I should go to Hengshan County with your Beggars' Sect?"

Originally, she wanted to go to Hengshan County to see what kind of woman Liu Qing was that could make the tribute scholar thousands of miles away miss her so much.

But the second brother used his father's words to pressure her to go to Fuzhou and refused to accompany her to Hengshan County. She had already given up this idea before, but she didn't expect there would be a sudden turn of events.

"Yes! Miss Yue can rest assured. I swear in the name of the Beggars' Sect that I will protect Miss Yue."

Jie Qing nodded seriously. After thinking it over, he suddenly had an idea that it would be most appropriate to take this girl who might have opened the box to Hengshan County.

By then, this matter will be an internal matter of your Five Mountains Sword Sect, and the Beggars' Sect will at most be considered to have failed to do its job properly.

Yue Lingshan had no objection to this at all. She ran back to tell Lao Denuo and asked what her second senior brother thought.

Laudno glanced at the muscular men around him. What else could he look at?!

At the same time, Ou Zanghua and more than 300 tribute candidates gathered in the lobby of the Ministry of Rites, where the head of the Ministry of Rites' Ceremonial Department personally taught them what they needed to pay attention to in tomorrow's palace examination.

Everyone held a pen in their hands and carefully wrote down the various precautions to avoid losing manners in front of the king.

After finishing the whole story, the head of the Ceremonial Department patiently answered several questions from the candidates before standing up and saying goodbye to everyone.

After everyone returned the greetings, they walked out of the Ministry of Rites lobby in groups of two or three.

Ou Zanghua, Yang Shen, Zou Shouyi and Wang Dao naturally came together and talked about some light topics.

Walking out of the gate, Yang Shen looked at his three friends and said with a smile, "We won't have a dinner together today. We'll have a drink and chat after the palace examination."

"Okay!"

Zou Shouyi smiled, looked at Yang Shen and said, "Brother Yongxiu won first place in the imperial examination. I will definitely give my all in the palace examination!"

Yang Shen laughed heartily and said with great pride: "Hahaha, Jingyu, Qianzhi, Chunfu, Yu Zihua, Xu Siren, Sun Defu, you can come at me tomorrow. Why should I, Yang Yongxiu, be afraid of you?! I will compete with you in the palace examination tomorrow."

"You are so confident!" Ou Zanghua looked at Yang Shen and said with a smile.

"I am so confident that I can get the first place in the imperial examination twice." Wang Dao sighed, feeling quite melancholy.

Zou Shouyi looked at Ou Zanghua and Wang Dao, and said with a smile: "What? Chunfu is scared? I'm not afraid, I'm even full of fighting spirit, I think Jingyu is the same!"

Ou Zanghua was embarrassed. He had no fighting spirit at all. He couldn't defeat this monster even with cheats. What could he do?
However, in front of good friends, he couldn't be weak, so he nodded calmly.

“Haha.” Wang Dao looked at his three friends with a smile and said, “You are all top five masters of the Five Classics. If you are fighting like gods, don’t bring me along!”

"What you said weakens your momentum as the champion of Shandong Province!" Ou Zanghua patted Wang Dao and encouraged him, "Chunfu, stand up!"

"Yes, Chunfu, let's encircle and suppress Yang Yongxiu together tomorrow!" Zou Shouyi also cheered from the side.

"You're so good, Zou Qianzhi. I haven't left yet!" Yang Shen reminded.

Ou Zanghua looked at Yang Shen and said, "Why don't you leave quickly? Are you trying to spy on the military situation of the three of us?"

Wang Dao looked helpless: "I really regret meeting you three."

(End of this chapter)